13 December 2011

As readers of this blog will have noticed, open data is particularly
hot at the moment. Whether that will endure is another matter, but for
the moment we should be grateful for all the politicians jumping on this
particular bandwagon, and we should grab the open data they are
releasing with both hands while we can. Here's the latest convert, the European Commission itself:

About Me

I have been a technology journalist and consultant for 30 years, covering
the Internet since March 1994, and the free software world since 1995.

One early feature I wrote was for Wired in 1997:
The Greatest OS that (N)ever Was.
My most recent books are Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, and Digital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionizing Science, Medicine and Business.